Products
Joyent SmartMachines are virtualized compute platforms that run cloud applications or Joyent Machine Images (JMIs). Customers can configure SmartMachines to their own specifications. Joyent Cloud offers virtual appliances for specialized computing tasks that come pre-installed and configured on a SmartMachine.
Freedom of Choice
SmartMachine users can run blazing fast Linux and Windows via the secure KVM (kernel virtual machine) hypervizor or can deploy enterprise-grade Solaris-derived SmartOS for instant vertical scaling, intelligent caching, and much deeper analytics access.
- SmartOS (derived from illumos, a member of the OpenSolaris family)
- Linux
- Windows
Appliances with a Purpose
Joyent Cloud offers pre-configured virtual appliances to simplify development and infrastructure management while enabling rapid scaling and fast application delivery.
MongoDB SmartMachine: A scalable, high-performance, open source document-oriented NoSQL database.
Node.js™ SmartMachine: A virtual machine pre-loaded with versions of Node.js and full SSH access to install additional packages, an open pipe to the Internet with Port 80 access, unrestricted Web sockets, and a unique IP address for each appliance.
Percona SmartMachine: A high performance MySQL database built for the cloud with hot backups and superior scaling capabilities.
Riak SmartMachine: A scalable, fault-tolerant, open source key/value database server intended to be the primary data storage mechanism in production applications.
Stingray SmartMachine: A powerful dedicated front-end loadbalancer for traffic shaping, network analysis, contentcaching, SSL offload, and security.
